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Yu Qin

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Died
  
1333

Name
  
Yu Qin

Notable work
  
Qi Cheng

Occupation
  
Geographer

Nationality
  
Chinese


Yu Qin (Chinese: 于钦, 1284–1333) was a well-known Chinese geographer living in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. In 1319 AD, he was appointed the official of Jinan to resolve the starvation problem caused by bad harvesting. He started to write the famous geography book Qi Cheng (齐乘) during this period, which was the oldest known geography book about Shandong Province which was located summer capital city of Khubilai khan of Mongolian empire.

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